Victory Birdseye

Victory Birdseye (25 December 1782-16 September 1853) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NY 19) from 4 March 1815 to 3 March 1817 (succeeding James Geddes and preceding James Porter) and from NY-23 from 4 March 1841 to 3 March 1843 (succeeding Nehemiah H. Earll and preceding Orville Robinson).

Biography
Victory Birdseye was born in Cornwall, Litchfield County, Connecticut in 1782, and he became a lawyer in Pompey Hill, New York in 1804. He served in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1817, as Postmaster of Pompey Hill from 1817 to 1838, District Attorney of Onondaga County from 1818 to 1833, a member of the State Assembly in 1823, 1838, and 1840, and in the State Senate in 1827. He died in 1853.